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The Art of Annotation: Teach Students to Talk to their Texts

For Real Conversations Get All Your Kids Talking

Diverse Texts Aren’t Just for Elementary School

Embracing Productive Struggle

Want to Build Better Writers? Help Students Find Their Own Voice

Until I Write It Down

Teach Background Knowledge? Yes! But what type? Steve Chiger on 4 kinds of knowledge.

Myth of the Hero Teacher?

essays published in Reading Reconsidered

Barbecuing [With] the Common Core

In Defense of Teaching Poetry

To Improve Teaching, Get Serious About Training

Let’s Re-Learn How to Read for the Common Core

Beyond ‘Grit:’ Where the Character Conversation Is Going Wrong

Common Core: The Death of Literature? Hardly

Hamlet and our Problems: Reimagining and Recharging Teachers in the Era of Common Core

essay published in Leverage Leadership

Constitution Day Revisited